News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-08-11
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS WE FIND RE-
CORDED IN THE PAPERS.

CORDED IN THE PAPERS.
The Boy with Il Penknifc-Hc was
Trotting Along Buffalo Moths
Mineral Products, &c, &c.
The children of James Wainwright,
of California, have a little chipmunk fol
pet. Not long ago the animal injured
one of its fore feet by becoming entan-
gled in a strand of thread. The in
hammation of the foot attracted the
attention of Mr.. Wainwright, who
found that the thread was wound around
the member. He cut the thread off,
but the wound did not heal and in a
few DAYS the flesh dropped off and left
the bone exposed The little animal
went to work then and did most re-
mGrkable thing. He bit off or ampu-
| tated the foot at what would correspond
to the wrist Joint. In the course OF q
few DAYS the bone still remained uncov-
cred because no provision had been
made for flap of the flesh to cover 1t.
The chipmunk then displayed a Won
derful knowledge of surgery. With his
nose he turned back the flesh and bit of
] piece of the bone above the end of the
flesh so that it projected beyond the
bone. In two weeks it had healed up
/ and looks as perfect as if surgeon had
! done the work.
1 WHEN the late Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.,
! was boy he went to sea. The conf
mander of the ship had literary turn
of mind and put in the spare hours OF
one cruise in writing sea story. One
/ day he came upon deck, and looking
down upon Il group of seaman, sung
out: HAS any one got a pen knife e
81 have, sir, y replied young Cobb, step
ping forward. ''Can you make quill
pens Z" Eyes, sir" "What did you do
before You shipped in the navy!'' 81
was in a printing Office. sir. You are
just the one | am looking for. Come
with me-" Young Cobb was taken into
the cabin and made private secretary,
but long before he had finished copying
and arranging the captains manuscript
he concluded that he could write bet
ter story himself, and tried it.
A wELL-KNowN railroad man who has
Just returned from Europe says that
when he was in Aberdeen, Scotland, he
was one day accosted by an old Scot,
who asked him if he was an American.
The railroad man replied proudly that
he WAS. ''WeI, said the old Scotch
man, ''can you tell me anything about
Wabash stock, and what is it worth 2
The railroad mans reply was. sit isn't
worth n cuss." To which came the
wrathful rejoinder: Then why the
deuce do Won send the stuff over here to
us! / have lot of the common stock
that l bought in the tifties, and it has
since sold down to 81 share. All,
what a sly fox that fellow Gould isl [
say, friend, one question mOrc-has he
any Scotch blood in his veins"
"THE other day." says an Oregon
man, ''as was walking into town, |
saw q coyote trotting along through
meadow. As he was coming toward
where [ was standing l stood still to
watch him. Directly saw hawk, one
OF the largest [ ever saw, makea sudden
dart down and hit Mr.. Coyote fair on
the back of the head. The hawk seem
ed to know that there was danger III
front of those Jaws. The coyote would
start off, and again the hawk would hit
him. The coyote would duck his head
then make a snap at the hawk. Thus
the battle ragged for 20 minutes, when,
unfortunately, / moved and the coyote
saw me. There was split in the air, a
streak of dust; and was alone.
The pests known us Buffalo moths
prevail in many localities along the Hud-
son River, and in the aggregate the loss
they have entailed is large. All sorts
of devices, including benzine, tobacco,
cedar shavings, and various other agents,
have been used by busy housewives for
the determination of the pests, but with
out avail They infest bureau drawers,
and riddle holes in linen and all kinds
of dry goods. They are found in closets
and warIrObes, in trunks and under
carpets. IN some places these little
furry-cOated moths pursue their way
industriOusly that housewives do not
fasten down their carpets, as they have
to be lifted regularly every day to kill
the moths.
WHEN Senator Congtr of Michigan
was young man he was engaged to
young woman. They quarrelled, sepa-
rated, and, in time, each married.
Twenty years after he, widower, was
in Congress; she, a widow, sat in the
gallery and listened to his speech. 1t
was the first time they had seen each
other since their early days. She sent
her card to him; he came at once to the
gallery. After q little talk she asked
him to call on her at her friends, Mrs.
Dahlgrens. He said he would call if he
could call as he used to in those long
past days CT youth. In a few weeks
they were married at Mrs. Admiral
Dahlgren's residence.
SPEAKING of the death of his uncle,
William Gibson, who was one of Mark
Twain's ''Innocents Abroad" a Pitts
burgh man says: "Uncle said he did
not like Mark very we'll; that he was
coarse, and would swear. When my
uncle and his wife were getting q pho
tograph taken by an ancient pyramid,
Mark took it on himself to hire dirty
band of Bedouin Arabs to walk in on
the background of the picture. Uncle
got angry, and drove Mark and them
away. He said he had often since re-
GREETED that he did not leave them
there, as it would have been very
natural fitting TO that kind of a picture"
The total value of the mineral prod
ucts of the United States increased in
round numbers from S428, 200, 900 in
1885 to 1856, 100000 in 1886. The
factor in this gain of S37, 00O,-
900 was the increased production of pig
iron from 4,044, 525 long tons III 1885 to
{, 1853, 329 long tons in 1886, and an
of IS cents i'll the average
value per ton, making total gain of
$50, 473, 800 III his industry alone The |
total value of gold produced in 1886
was $50, 900, 900, an increase of So. 1885, /
600 over 1885. The production of sill
yer decreased from sol ,60O,OO0 III 1885
to SOL ,OG0, 900 in 1886.
THE priest of Canicatti, large town
in the province of Girgenti, Sicily, re-
Gently caused to appear beside him in
the pulpit young man whose face was
BACKED, whose head was furnished with /,
two large horns, and who had long
tail from the end of which crackers
vent off. The priest informed his flock (
that this figure was the devil, and Il
great panic ensued Women and child F.
rem present at this unseemly comedy .
were injured III the crush.
Mrs. ROSE TERRY Cooke says that if /